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I'm Heather.

And I'm Susan.

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We're back in what we are affectionately calling part two of genesis we are now getting into the patriarchs

and when we left off abraham had just gotten kicked out of egypt for lying about his wife sarai

but he wouldn't have had to lie if he had not gone to egypt in the first place and that's just

what happens when you follow your plan and not God's plan. And then he also wouldn't have had to go, wouldn't have gone to Egypt if he had just trusted God about the famine and listened to what God was telling him to do. So this is a common theme in the Bible. We're going to see it all the way through that we focus on mistakes, right? That shines a light, though, on how God wants to

change things in your life. And how they turn. These Bible characters turn. So there's a bigger

story. It's all we've throughout the whole Bible. And it's a story about how God is going to

eventually restore the world to him through Jesus. Abraham has clearly fallen into a pattern of, I see, I take, it's a mistake,

I fall, repent, and I return to God. He trusted God in his calling, and then he doesn't trust God,

and he trusts himself. And it's going to happen again, forewarning. But this, there's another theme here

of him and Egypt. And actually, Genesis, in Egypt. So he didn't

trust God in the famine and he went to Egypt. And this theme is going to be played out again and again.

And going to Egypt, I've said it before, is never a good thing for the Israelites. So another famine and bad

choices will lead Abraham's great grandsons to Egypt. I'm talking about way towards the end.

A couple generations later. I'm talking about Jacob's sons. And the Israelites end up slaves in

Egypt. And then they get out of Egypt because God sends plagues and Pharaoh

freaks out. Sounds familiar. We just had this kind of plague where Pharaoh realized the plague

was put on him because Sarah was Abraham's wife, not sister. And then the Israelites leave

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